Progressive
Progressive?What does it mean to be progressive? Being progressive to me means to develop or grow to make a positive impact on your life or country values. There are a few factors to determine if progress is being made, four factors to be exact. The factors are freedom, opportunity, responsibility and cooperation. With all these factors together that's how you know progress is being made!
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Progressive ProjectFor my progressive project I chose a topic I dearly hold to my heart. The topic happens to be about lower-income or 'Ghetto' neighborhood. I live in City Heights and it's reputation isn't the best, I have heard many negative remarks towards my neighborhood like 'Ghetto', 'rundown', when it it nothing like that. City Heights is a beautiful place, it is my home. My goal is to erase the word 'Ghetto' from terrorizing innocent, diverse neighborhoods
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Project Process
1. Interviews (Click Button Below To See The Interviews)
2. Interrelationship Digraph & Human Centered Problem Statement
3. Immersion Experience Documentation & Reflection
For our immersion we went to three different neighborhoods, two deem to be 'Ghetto' in Barrio Logan & City Heights, while the third neighborhood is deem to be good and wealthy in Coronado.
4. Class Presentation
5. Mind-mapping
6. Story Mapping
7. Prototype
8. Trifold
Progressive Day (June 1st)
1. Document of Progressive Day & Reflection
2. Social Experiment
Overall Experience
1. My Experience
To start off I really enjoyed this project from the researches and interviews to the actually progressive day and our social experiment. Although my group and I were very skeptical about progressive day due to the fact we had to approach complete strangers and interviewing them about such a heavy topic, as well. However, our group clicked and we wanted to make a difference, making a difference was much more important than being scared to approach a stranger. Progressive day was a success and I was proud of my group for facing our fears. Progressive day was really eye-opening for me, because of my mindset coming into that day and towards the neighborhood of Coronado, I assumed the people would be stuck up and extremely stereotypical about the lower-income neighborhoods. However, that isn’t true, the teenagers and young adults we interview were really open minded and really respectful towards the lower-income neighborhood. They labeled Barrio Logan as beautiful, a place for family, and artsy even. The reason this was eye-opening for me was because I was stereotyping the residents of Coronado because of their demographic and the neighborhood’s image. My group tried to end stereotyping and segregation towards the ‘Ghetto’ but, I was doing the same thing towards Coronado. Speaking of segregation, that word was our human centered problem, which means the reason for ‘Ghetto’ neighborhoods is because us humans segregate each other. Why is this important? Well, did you know that the infamous group name, the Nazi created the word to labeled the neighborhood with a large demographic of Jewish residents. This was to segregate the Jews from other races and a step of the ‘Final Solution’ to kill all the Jews. This blows my mind, an evil word created by an evil group is still lingering around and haunting our everyday life. This taught me why the label ‘Ghetto’ was found and how and why the word was created. When we present this fact to the class and the people we interview for our social experiment, we encountered a lot of shocks and ‘aw’. This would give everyone a reason to reconsidered labeling a neighborhood ‘Ghetto’ because of the word’s background. I felt the people we interview our project impacted their views of lower-income neighborhoods in a positive way, instead of the negative perspectives. Overall, I see this project as a success, our goal was fulfilled and I wouldn’t change a single thing.